Explore materials from the atomic to the continuum level, and apply your learning to mechanics and engineering problems.
Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 2: Stress Transformations, Beams, Columns, and Cellular Solids
Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online
Overview
Syllabus
- Concepts relating to stress transformation, including equivalent stresses, principal stresses, and maximum shear stress
- How to solve stress transformation problems using Mohr’s circle
- How to solve problems relating to beam bending and column buckling
- How the stiffness and strength of cellular materials depend on their mechanisms of deformation and failure
Taught by
Lorna Gibson and Jessica Sandland
